Archive for December, 2007

600 bars in total now for Avanti Screenmedia

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It used to be that if you were a UK media planner then you had two places to go in order to advertise on a digital screen network and target the UK pub, club and bar leisure sector; Avanti Screenmedia or Brightspace Media. Brightspace Media, haven’t done a campaign of any note for their networks […]

Pixel chooses Coolsign for Store Windows

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Even without a UK or continental European employee yet (I believe an announcement is imminent) Coolsign was chosen by the UK’s Pixel Inspiration for a digital screen window network with human resource company Adecco. The network will run at the moment across all five Adecco Premier U.K venues This digital signage solution publishes new job […]

What’s going on at World Duty Free?

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Winning the World Duty Free business at BAA’s new UK Terminal 5 should have been, what? – newsworthy, worthwhile, exciting, profitable? It’s not clear exactly what is going on at the moment but two signage vendors claim to have won the business and separately last week, it was reported that one of them was asked […]

The Minority Report Thesis

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Barnaby Page who moderated several sessions at DS Asia 2007 so well made the quip that a DS conference these days wasn’t complete until someone had showed a clip from the film “Minority Report” – have you seen how many “Minority Report” clips there are on YouTube? Anyway, maybe today’s modern blog isn’t complete without […]

Cabtivate returns as Cabtivate Networks

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Check out http://www.cabtivate.com/ and notice the “powered by iMTV” tag line! I understand that Cabtivate Media has been bought out of liquidation by iMTV and has been renamed Cabtivate Networks Ltd. The Cabtivate brand will remain / return! IMTV will be making announcements shortly about their plans for the future.

What’s Russian for “Cabtivate” ?

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

I bumped into the Chairman of the board of these Russian folks in London yesterday – iMTV is one of the four subsidiaries of FormTrust Holding. They were having a meeting with Mark Greenhalgh, formerly of course the founder of Cabtivate and now in charge at Tapinto – the business setup to sell the technology […]

i-design Group PLC (ATM:ad) Interim Results

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Last week i-design group (the folks behind ATM:ad) posted their interim results for the year to 30 September 2007 – they are on the UK’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM). Unfortunately like many digital out of home companies on AIM, no-one really took much notice and i-design struggled to get any decent PR mentions in the […]

CBS Outdoor Re-Organises

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

CBS Outdoor today announced a New International Management Structure – it doesn’t make any specific mention of how its digital initiatives fit in the new international division but CBS Outdoor have made no secret of their desire to be the leader in DOOH. Pictured above is Clive Punter, CEO. CBS Outdoor today announces a major […]

HOUSEKEEPING – New Banner Advertisers 1

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Thanks to Mark Pigou at Screen Expo / Retail Events and Geoff Robertson at MediaZest who are our most recent banner advertisers (joining Amigo Digital). Hopefully all of our readers can see them and they are not too intrusive. A banner advert for Neo Advertising should be up before Christmas also.

Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB)

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

I see that the Swiss based Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB) has agreed in principle with InciteMedia to look at a small digital signage network – 7 venues by March 2008 (with the promise / allure of a further 50 by end of 2008). About InciteMedia AG / netnetnet.tv Inc. Incite Media as a specialist for multimedia […]